Crisis & Disaster Intelligence Powered by Inkanyamba

The Disaster Cycle

One connected decision system — from baseline conditions through shock, response, assistance, recovery, and governance.

Preparedness & Warning

01Baseline & Preparedness What normal looks like before a shock. Locality profiles, infrastructure, markets. 02Early Warning Signals that feasibility assumptions may be changing before the shock fully lands. 03Emergency Response What changed, what broke, and which delivery constraints are now binding.

Response & Recovery

04Humanitarian Assistance Where the cycle becomes a delivery decision. Cash, vouchers, in-kind, hybrid. 05Recovery & Transition When constraints shift and the modality question changes again.

Analyses & Evidence

Structured feasibility assessments by context. Every verdict is traceable to evidence, scored against five constraint dimensions, and fully auditable.

Analyses

All Analyses Feasibility assessments by context, modality set, and constraint profile. Publication Standards Rules governing what gets published, how, and under what caveats.

Evidence

Evidence Method How sources are selected, assessed, weighted, and applied to scoring. Source Index 14 sources tracked. 12 QA passed. Full index with confidence notes.

Engine & Framework

Deterministic. Reproducible. Auditable. Every result can be re-run from the same inputs and will return the same output.

◆ Inkanyamba

Named after a storm-force from Southern African tradition — Inkanyamba appears when systems are under stress and decisions cannot wait. That is exactly the context this engine is built for.

Engine

How Scoring Works How INKANYAMBA computes feasibility verdicts across five constraint dimensions. Input / Output Contract What the engine accepts and what it returns as structured output.

Framework

Feasibility Dimensions Access · Market · Financial · Regulatory/Operational · Protection Classification Logic How dimension scores produce verdicts — Feasible, Conditional, Constrained, Not Advised.

About CDI

A crisis and disaster decision-intelligence platform. Built for judgment under pressure, not for reporting after the fact.

Project

Mission What CDI is built to do — and what it explicitly is not. Governance & Corrections How errors are identified, corrected, and logged publicly. Blog Updates, method notes, and field observations from the CDI project.

Contact

Get in Touch Questions, collaboration requests, and general outreach. Submit a Correction Found an error in an analysis or source? Submit it for public review.

Humanitarian Assistance

Humanitarian Assistance is where the disaster cycle becomes a delivery decision. HADIP compares cash, vouchers, in-kind, service-based, and hybrid delivery against baseline conditions, shock inputs, evidence, and scoring logic — and returns structured, auditable feasibility verdicts.

The section is modality-neutral. It does not declare a universal best approach. It compares what is likely feasible, conditional, severely constrained, or not advisable in a specific context — and shows its working.

Five feasibility dimensions

Access · Market · Financial · Regulatory/Operational · Protection

In this section: Analyses · Framework · Evidence · Engine